St Mark S Gospel And The Christian Faith

Now fully revised to match the changes to AQA specification A, option 1c - The Christian Life and St Mark's Gospel.

The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconcerted disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. With an introduction by Nick Cave

Saint Mark's Gospel is generally agreed to be the primary source for the life of Jesus - both Matthew and Luke drew on his account when they were writing their own. None of them, stresses the author of this book, was attempting to create a modern-style biography. But although Mark lays his own individual emphasis on the perennial struggle between the forces of good and evil, the suffering and secret Messiahship of Christ, he seems largely to be handing on, unmodified, the traditions of the early Christian Church.

This foundation edition covers the popular option St Mark's Gospel. It's the only book that exactly matches the AQA specification A option 1C and offers support for your lower ability pupils.

R.H. Lightfoot's 'St. John's Gospel: a Commentary' reached a wide new audience as 'Oxford Paperback No. 5'. In this short book, the author examines, with the same beautiful lucidity and deep insight, various aspects of the message of St. Mark.

Description and history of St. Mark's Church of Venice.

St Mark's Gospel is among the earliest records about Jesus of Nazareth. This commentary focuses primarily on the problem of understanding what Mark himself intended to convey to his readers when he set out to write 'the good news of Jesus Christ'. There is an examination of information in the gospel about the historical Jesus, about the early Christian community and about Mark's theological concerns. There is, also, consideration of the sources for the Gospel, of the tradition behind it and of interventions by editors. Professor Hooker's new commentary takes account of the many lasted twentieth-century Markan studies and comes with her own translation of the Gospel. References to Greek sources are included but do not require a knowledge of Greek.

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